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Post by nonrabbit on Dec 2, 2011 17:17:30 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 2, 2011 19:35:50 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 18, 2011 19:43:53 GMT
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Post by nonrabbit on Dec 18, 2011 22:46:05 GMT
All your Xmas's must have come at once the year you got that ;D ;D
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 19, 2011 15:32:12 GMT
All your Xmas's must have come at once the year you got that ;D ;D We used to get boxes of the stuff, mostly also rans and rubbish but occassionally there was some interesting items. Nowadays you could sell it on ebay but back then we used to give it away at PA's and as prizes. |
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Post by joanb on Feb 2, 2012 4:24:39 GMT
Now here's something that must be very rare, a War Child unused wax candle which originated from America. Anyone still got one?  I have one! It sits on my bureau unlit as it has for MANY years. I got it brand new as a thank you gift from a Detroit record producer. He and his family relocated to Boston when I was a teenager and I got the baby-sitting gig. The Boston thing didn't work out for Time-Warner-Electra and he was sent back to Detroit and mailed the candle to me. Best babysitting job ever, the kids were super good, his wife cooked tons of goodies and I had free range in his record room to take home whatever I liked, this made his trip home lighter  and we still keep in touch all these years later. Great people. I'll get a picture posted. |
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 4, 2012 18:50:35 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 20, 2012 15:26:10 GMT
Some badges and a key fob. It's a shame TullCentral don't produce items like these anymore.  |
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 20, 2012 16:28:43 GMT
I have the 'A' one...nicely burnt and scarred from constantly turning it over and using it as a device for smoking bits of hash under a wine glass while all the Europeans around me consumed spleefs with tobacco that were unpalatable to my non-smoking lungs...those were the days!
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 28, 2012 17:57:21 GMT
One of our iconic threads thanks to Maddogfagin  October 1968 ![]() i47.images obliterated by tinypic/dmtk7n.jpg[/IMG] one of my fav pics when I had a myspace page - IslaofTull ;D ![]() i46.images obliterated by tinypic/11il552.jpg[/IMG] |
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 28, 2012 7:27:22 GMT
Anybody go to this concert?  17/6 was top money in 1969 |
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 11, 2013 17:37:46 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 28, 2013 18:50:18 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on May 8, 2013 8:59:39 GMT
Worth re-posting - Tull at Hyde Park in 1968. Apart from the Marquee Club photos and a small amount scattered around the web, very few exist.  |
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Post by nonrabbit on May 8, 2013 10:44:15 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on May 8, 2013 12:27:46 GMT
This is one of the earliest photographs of the band which I've scanned from Mick's book "What Is A Wommett". The original is the size of a postage stamp btw.  © 2008, Mick Abrahams |
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Post by JTull 007 on May 8, 2013 12:40:26 GMT
Awesome pics from Hyde Park and the early days of Tull. This was the beginning of historic social and musical change in a world that needed it. All the foolish comments about 'hippies' made by Ian, do not explain the real story of those days. Long haired, pot smoking, wild dancing, sexual revolution, peace loving and Tull loving fans, were the ones that gave Tull a beginning that continues to this day. Why criticize those who were expressing themselves in their own fun loving way? Rock on Tull Hippies!  Peace, Love, Tull ;D |
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Post by tullist on May 8, 2013 14:51:04 GMT
Man. Sure hope Mick is feeling ok. All i know is he is not dead, but absolutely been through the ringer in the last year or two. Talk about a shot I had never expected to see.
Looks like a better hair style for Clive, one of those guys who the long hair years did no favors for in terms of appearance. In any case I really do have to say wow. And Graham saw shows I think in venues not unlike this. Near certain you saw them with Mick.
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Post by tullist on May 8, 2013 14:58:33 GMT
Awesome pics from Hyde Park and the early days of Tull. This was the beginning of historic social and musical change in a world that needed it. All the foolish comments about 'hippies' made by Ian, do not explain the real story of those days. Long haired, pot smoking, wild dancing, sexual revolution, peace loving and Tull loving fans, were the ones that gave Tull a beginning that continues to this day. Why criticize those who were expressing themselves in their own fun loving way? Rock on Tull Hippies! Peace, Love, Tull ;D Having lived in and participated in those years, and having an older sister who is a direct link to the Haight Ashbury, I know precisely what Ian was on about. In fact all you have to do is look at that IOW doc to see to whom that was addressed. I can liken them to a strain of folks in Chicago over the past 30 or more years who are huge reggae fans, and take it right to the extent of adopting the fake Jamaican accent, (mon) and earned their sobriquet as rastaFAKians. The original hippies, out of the Haight and elsewhere, circa 64 thru 66 to my thinking, some of the finest humans and patriots my country created in the century past. (I could draw up a long list of accomplishments, including this very computer, that I would credit that strain of society to have had a hand in but...i won't) However once suburbia USA found out about it, re, like alot of the "assclowns" you see spewing the self righteous dribble of peoples entitlements in that movie, yeah, I know PRECISELY what Ian is talking about. Very much prefer the older dude with the pipe. |
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Post by steelmonkey on May 8, 2013 15:42:22 GMT
Now we call the fakers 'Trustafarians'
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Post by nonrabbit on May 8, 2013 17:30:24 GMT
What I would like to say about hippiedom - both good and bad well I can't be ar**ed to type would take too long. ;D
I'll always have a sense of regret that I was only 12 yrs in 1969 so a bit too young to experience the start - even over here in YooKay however I feel privilged to have been of an age to be influenced by everything that was happening - all round the world.
Education was free, the NHS was at it's prime and there was less cynicism and we really didn't know what materialism was ..despite what the hippies said.
I said to my career nun/teacher that I wanted to be a hippie ( seriously did) because I wanted to be free.
We " made a stand" for " freedom" and it's left us even more confused.
I didn't need money - I lived off richer hippies (for a while) who's Mum and Dad gave them money ....enough to buy those beautiful Turkish rugs that they sat on while despising rich people. ;D
I am so glad I was in the sixties even although I was a bit late.
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Post by steelmonkey on May 8, 2013 18:51:39 GMT
What was so funny about peace, love and understanding...it was nice, while it lasted.
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Post by tullist on May 8, 2013 19:08:30 GMT
Still we have to be real in also allowing that it never existed, save in pockets which still exist today. Garcia was good at picking up on that, that the most one could hope for is to create your own comfortable little enclave. Mass enlightenment has never occured, not close, certainly not back then when, for those who truly remember, right up to about 1972 long hair could risk you a very dangerous ass kicking in most outposts. Whenever they do those retrospectives with people waxing nostalgic about the period, you just know it is mf's who were not involved. In real time even an individual like Martin King was considered a rabble rouser, Malcolm X, (along with JFK, likely our most lucid public speaker of the decade)a dangerous terrorist. And to the powers that were and that be, he handsomely remains precisely that. All you have to do is look at how our current President is asked to disown any friendship, professional or otherwise, with top child educator, scion of the Walgreens fortune that he easily could have fallen back on, and SDS cheif operator Bill Ayers to see in the mainstream little has changed, nor do people particularly want it to. People who risked and gave their lives in things like voter registration in the South are still well outside the mainstream, as we still allow states to fly symbolism on their flag, re the stars and bars, which is precisely identical to the swastika to about 30 million of our countrymen. A smaller recent outrage was some high school in Georgia where it actually was an issue to have an "integrated" prom. Cannot people see how patently absurd the notion of "integration" is? Like you are trying to mate 2 different species or something, right in 2013. I mean after all that they are worried whether black and white skinned kids are dancing together, and heaven forbid, possibly actually creating a child. In certain, re many sectors of this world, there simply is no hope.
And as to Elvis Costello, I recall how that song in part pissed me off when it was new. I believe punk was a prime influence in trivializing those years, I do remember their f**k art lets dance ethos. And the bug eyed heroin stare someone wearing a tie dye might have received if they had shown up at any of the worlds punk bars. f**k punk. I kind of liked the original premise but they brought, finally, virtually nothing new to the table, and if I want real rock and roll, I will return to where it was born, in the USA, you know, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, T Bone Walker, the real news. Still would love to see one of those Sex Pistols get bitch slapped into an icy Chicago river. And I sort of liked the record.
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Post by maddogfagin on May 9, 2013 9:20:36 GMT
Man. Sure hope Mick is feeling ok. All i know is he is not dead, but absolutely been through the ringer in the last year or two. Talk about a shot I had never expected to see. Looks like a better hair style for Clive, one of those guys who the long hair years did no favors for in terms of appearance. In any case I really do have to say wow. And Graham saw shows I think in venues not unlike this. Near certain you saw them with Mick. Oh yes Ray, the Star Club in Croydon with Mick Abrahams looming large on the side of the stage. He is and was back then an impressive character on stage and in my own opinion, and that of others, if it hadn't been for him Tull as we know it wouldn't be the same "beast" it is today. OK so his time in the band was short but the foundations he laid paved the way for Martin Barre and his monumental accomplishments with the band. Another set of musicians were the original Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green et al - Jeremy Spencer's homage to Elmore James' music was a privilage to hear and witness, not forgetting Peter Green's leadership of the band which certainly opened the eyes and ears of many young suburban music lovers who up to then had relied on cr@p and watered down cover versions of the blues and rock 'n' roll. Not forgetting Jimi, Cream, Duster Bennett, John Mayal, Cyril Davies and a host of others. Great days indeed. |
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Post by nonrabbit on Jun 7, 2013 7:24:00 GMT
Can't remember if posters go in this thread or not... ![]() 1970 ![]() |
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Post by Tull50 on Jul 29, 2013 20:56:33 GMT
My Avo Session, signed by Anderson   |
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Post by JTull 007 on Jul 30, 2013 1:53:26 GMT
My Avo Session, signed by Anderson I've never had a cd or dvd signed by Ian. I think the next time will be a must. Awesome pic Sir Remy! |
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 29, 2013 7:45:53 GMT
Found these two large posters tucked behind a wardrobe whilst clearing a room for decorating.   |
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 15, 2013 14:44:07 GMT
A few badges and key rings, direct from my "Tull kennel  "   |
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 29, 2014 14:06:07 GMT
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and we still keep in touch all these years later. Great people. I'll get a picture posted.
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